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Posted on 08/26/2018 9:35:22 PM PDT by Simon Green
A 6-year-old boy in Olympia was assaulted after he says he stood up to a group of kids who were bullying his friend.
Carter and his mother Dana English left Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Friday afternoon after a morning surgery to repair a laceration in his eye.
“It’s been hell,” Dana said. “I haven’t slept. I haven’t eaten. I can’t do anything. I can’t even leave his side.”
Carter says he was attacked by a group of kids around his age at his Olympia apartment complex Wednesday afternoon. He says he confronted the group for bullying his friend.
“They were just bullying him, like beating him up,” Carter said. “I just told them to stop... and then they did it to me.”
They beat Carter with rocks and sticks, and rubbed sawdust in his eyes. He ended up with a broken arm, lacerated eye and several cuts and bruises across his head and face.
Olympia Police are now investigating. They identified a 5-year-old who they believe started all this, and they’re planning to get social services involved. They say the case was briefly presented to the prosecutor’s office, but due to the age of everyone involved, the case will not result in a criminal referral.
Carter may need surgery on his arm, and definitely needs some rest, as he deals with the consequence of standing up for what’s right.
“I really don’t know what I’m hoping for other than for people to know that this is not acceptable,” Dana said. “Bullying is not okay. There’s no reason to bully someone ever."
Friends have set up a GoFundMe account to help the family with medical expenses.
That may be the dumbest ####ing post i’ve ever seen on here :)
Congratulations. that’s not easy!!!
Severe punishment and a good look at the parents might be a better first step.
You sick #### you :)
Valhalla is honoring this little berserker!
No they’re lost at 5.
You’re right.
Idiocy shining brightly on this thread! :)
Myself and a LOT of others on this board would have been “put down” as another jackass on this site suggested, for our actions throughout life and a #### of a lot later in life than 5.
Even some sick #### here hoping for the resurrection of Adolph Eichman :)
It’s great to be back :)
“First of all, beating with rocks and sticks is not bullying, it is assault.”
It’s not assault. It’s battery. Assault is the swing and miss, or the squaring off and menacing. Battery is completing the assault.
This episode sounds like something from ‘Lord of the Flies’.
Feral kids.
“Brave and moral young boy. He has learned not to confront a group of bullies if you are alone”.
Bet his friend is glad he didn’t do the smart (cowardly) thing.
Lord of The Flies
The perpetrators’ parents should be dunned for all the medical bills of the victims.
These “bullies” are mass murder shooters of the future.
I bet you never did anything close to what happened here.
These are not your run-of-the-mill juvenile delinquents.
I’m with you. The kid isn’t dead, and his attackers are 5, and people here want them executed? Prison would just make them worse when they eventually got out. A swift public caning would be appropriate. Death? Not so much.
Ethnicity doesn’t matter; level of brain function would.
Sobs and their parents need a good beat down.
Probably not. But they need a good beat down anyway.
It would if a group of white kids beat up a Black kid.
“The perpetrators’ parents should be dunned for all the medical bills of the victims.”
The best suggestion so far.
In school they tell children that bullies will back down when you stand up to them.
Rather garsh real world object lesson, one I doubt anyone that way will figure out.
Stand-up kid.
He’ll do well.
One word:
Move
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